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Photo Credit: Scott Ableman via Compfight Last week, I talked about the “positive flip”: the idea of taking an area where a negativity bias may be narrowing our perspective and considering it from a more positive vantage point. Today’s article is about how to apply this in the real world. First of all, there is […]

Today’s article contains simple but powerful wisdom from Dr. Lynn Johnson, PhD, author of ENJOY LIFE! Healing with Happiness. For a great introduction to Lynn (and his dog Ruby,) visit his website http://enjoylifebook.com/ and watch the one minute video for a brief lesson on happiness. Homer Simpson once said, “If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, why […]

In Defense of Pampering from Jeremy McCarthy on Vimeo. Because I am currently on vacation in France and celebrating my grandparents’ (in-law) 70th wedding anniversary (an occasion which warrants a blog article in and of itself!) in place of my regular weekly column, I am sharing a link to a video of the speech that […]

The other night at 4:30 a.m. my young son Dylan (one month old), woke us up wanting a diaper change and a breast feed. Dutifully, I got up and changed his diaper and handed him to Catherine for a feeding. Normally, I would go back to bed at this point, but because it was a […]